📋 Tender Overview
ProRail is working on a temporary solution to strengthen the railway embankment in Gorinchem. This is a challenging job that unfortunately takes a lot of time. Until the railway embankment is reinforced, the trains here can only run at 40 km/h for safety reasons. It is still unclear how long this will take.
Difficult to reach
ProRail, together with contractor Asset Rail and engineering firm 4Infra, is investigating the best temporary solution for reinforcing the railway embankment. Various solutions have been carefully calculated and elaborated by specialists and geotechnicians. Unfortunately, the crack is in a hard-to-reach place.
There is a lot of sludge in the ditch next to the railway embankment and the soil in this area consists of clay and peat. Offering counter pressure from the ditch is not possible simply because of this soft soil. In addition, there are all kinds of cables and pipes in the railway embankment and under the ditch; We don't want to destroy them. We will submit a plan of action to the municipality of Gorinchem and the Water Board. After their approval, there will be an implementation plan with concrete details about exactly what we are going to do, how and when.
Definitive recovery
The reinforcement of the railway embankment is necessary in order to be able to work on the permanent repair of the crack that appeared in January. We have to carefully excavate the railway embankment and then repair it. If we do not reinforce the railway embankment first, there is a risk of subsidence of the track, which means that trains can no longer run at all.
